‘Slavery By Another Name’ Existed in the U.S. Until the 1970s

I remember it, books and films document it

The conventional wisdom is that slavery ended in 1863 with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. That was not really true in many parts of the American South.

When my future brother-in-law from New Jersey visited the semi-rural North Carolina community where my family lived in the mid-1960s, he was shocked. “They still have slaves!” he later reca…